''Crows Fly Black'' is the seventh album by Finnish heavy metal band

Tarot The tarot (, first known as '' trionfi'' and later as ''tarocchi'' or ''tarocks'') is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, ...

, released on 27 October 2006. This album is accompanied by the single "You", and the music video "Ashes to the Stars". This is the first album to officially acknowledge Tommi 'Tumple' Salmela as a member of the band, referred to as an 'old-new' member; until then, Tommi's role was limited to sampling and backing vocals, while in this album, Tommi takes role of fully fledged vocalist.

Track listing

# Crows Fly Black - 6:31 # Traitor - 3:38 # Ashes to the Stars - 5:25 # Messenger of Gods - 4:23 # Before the Skies Come Down - 4:06 # Tides - 5:33 # Bleeding Dust - 4:23 # You - 3:44 # Howl! - 4:22 # Grey - 4:49 # * Veteran of Psychic Wars (Bonus Track) - 5:06

Charts

Personnel

Tarot *

Marko Hietala Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala (born 14 January 1966) is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic ...

– vocals & backing vocals, bass, acoustic guitar *

Zachary Hietala Sakari "Zachary" Hietala (born August 10, 1962 in Tervo, Finland) is the guitarist, co-songwriter and founding member of Finnish heavy metal band ''Tarot'' (formerly ''Purgatory'') in early 1980s, together with his younger brother Marko Hietala ...

– guitars *

Janne Tolsa Janne Tolsa (born 7 March 1970) is a Finnish heavy metal musician. Known for his keyboard work in Tarot from the late 1980s, Tolsa also takes part in the melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow, which he joined in 2005 for their albu ...

– keyboards *Pecu Cinnari – drums *Tommi Salmela – samples, vocals & backing vocals Guest musicians *Emppu Vuorinen (

Nightwish Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Neva ...

) – guitar solo on "Traitor" *

MC Raaka Pee Petja Turunen (born 19 November 1980), known professionally as MC Raaka Pee, is a Finnish metal musician and the co-founder and vocalist of Turmion Kätilöt. He plays the piano and guitar as well. He owns the record label OSASTO-A. Raaka Pee h ...

(

Turmion Kätilöt Turmion Kätilöt (literally "Midwives of Ruin", "Midwives of Bane" or "Midwives of Perdition") is a Finnish industrial metal band founded in 2003 by MC Raaka Pee and DJ Vastapallo, who until the latter's departure, were the only studio lineup ...

) – backing vocals

References

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